Word: ferret
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Chapin stayed on to teach at the Institute. Following his rule of "painting whatever I have around me" ("I'm oldfashioned. I like to paint from nature"), he soon showed that he could ferret out color in a row of dingy flats, uncover excitement on a deserted street corner...
Then, without even a change of business suit, the President became the harassed top executive of the world's largest business, on a hunt for new talent at low salaries. To help ferret it out, he set up a high-powered special committee to list qualified prospects for some 200 key Government vacancies each year. When Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle popped in, Harry Truman-as head chieftain of his party, a position not even dreamed of by the founding fathers-talked over the 65 speeches he would make on his ten-day "nonpolitical" tour beginning...
...housekeeper, they had some kind of hold over the seemingly innocent but strangely knowing children; and now, she feels, they have it again as ghosts. She sends the eight-year-old girl away with the housekeeper, but chooses to stay behind with the twelve-year-old boy, determined to ferret out the truth and free him from the valet's domination...
...charges against them; the loyalty order is ex post facto in effect, and there is no right to examine witnesses or evidence used against the accused. This is the type of un-American proceeding which is embodied in the loyalty order. This is the proceeding used by "patriots" to ferret out "subversives...
...Whether steps should be taken to encourage alumni to ferret out high-school stars and interest them in Harvard, and whether alumni should give athletic scholarships...